Kelsey Corby
Kelsey Corby (MA Artistic Research) is a glitter mason and sparkle practitioner who probes the revenge fantasy object. They call upon architectures of queer rage and apocalyptic longing to rehearse justice through spectacle; call it preemptive archival. They are currently making headstones for homosocial miners from the California Gold Rush.
Corby is currently undertaking a critical reassessment of glitter's role within their practice, affording select concessions between ecological taboo and cultural persistence. They now focus on developing alternative methods of producing the “glitter-affect” through organic processes, maintaining glitter’s position as a resilient queer medium capable of adaptation under constraint.
Kelsey Corby is a 2021 Stroom Encouragement Award Nominee and holds the 2018 David Henry Nobody Jr.’s ‘One Minute Project’ Prize. They’ve taught art writing with the DOK Project in 2022 at KABK and painting courses in SUNY Schenectady in New York. Corby has been featured in Jegens & Tevens, Lost Painters, and Metropolis M.
